Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERI just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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